Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
Featured

In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be […]

Is Benjamin Netanyahu on a Mission to Realize a Greater Israel?

Is Benjamin Netanyahu on a Mission to Realize a Greater Israel?

09/25/2025 By The Conversation

Kimmel Saga no Laughing Matter: Trump and the North Koreanization of America

Kimmel Saga no Laughing Matter: Trump and the North Koreanization of America

09/25/2025 By John Feffer

More Stories

Iraq
Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Iraq’s security problems continue to be severe, if not generally crippling the way they were in 2006, as underlined by Sunday’s guerrilla takeover of a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

My column is out at Truthdig is out, entitled “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House” Excerpt: ‘ Although Congress for the most part […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

David Broder is a respected political analyst. I once had breakfast with him and I like him. I often think his columns are on the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can't we all Get Along?

Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can’t we all Get Along?

There were lots of political rallies on Saturday, not just the big one on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Rally to Restore Sanity / […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Saudi Arabia Saves Chicago Synagogue from al-Qaeda Bomb Plot

Saudi Arabia Saves Chicago Synagogue from al-Qaeda Bomb Plot

CNN reports that Saudi intelligence was the source of the information on the tracking numbers of two bomb packets sent by UPS and Fedex from […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Ballot Fraud, Mafia Rule making Afghans Pessimistic: Chayes

Ballot Fraud, Mafia Rule making Afghans Pessimistic: Chayes

I heard Sarah Chayes at the Michigan Theater on Thursday afternoon, speaking on Afghanistan. She is a long time expatriate in Qandahar, where she arrived […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

NPR reports that Arizona’s fascist immigration law was cooked up and in large part written by the private prison industry in the state, which saw […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Mission Impossible:  Iraq

Mission Impossible: Iraq

Mission Impossible: Government Formation Producer and screenwriter: The United States Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi Sound and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Scary Tea Party Compilation

Scary Tea Party Compilation

You can’t make this stuff up. Vote Sanity suggests that however angry you might be about the current situation, it is important that you vote […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2262
  • Page 2263
  • Page 2264
  • Page 2265
  • Page 2266
  • …
  • Page 3030
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

Frida Berrigan

Israel/ Palestine

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Association

Featured

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

International Middle East Media Center

Popular

  • "Real Estate Bonanza:" The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
  • Netanyahu Says he's making Israel a "Sparta:" He means a global Pariah State
  • Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov't is Coming for the West Bank
  • As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank
  • Muslim-Led Story-Telling is Changing the TV Narrative of Irrational Violence
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved